What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Point No.3: A total lack of domain name management menus

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...